Wednesday, December 03, 2008

In your face, Obama!

We've just one-upped the U.S. in terms of progressive politics. They may have elected a black man as president, but we currently have a black woman in charge of the future of our nation!

And she is hot!

Sure it won't last long, but since we've lost almost everything else that made our country cooler than the U.S., let's bask in it while it lasts!

Now the big question is will she side with the Cons in their attempt to prorogue the government or will she allow the coalition to take the reins of power?

On the one hand, she has to protect her own future and reputation and she has demonstrated thoughtfulness for most of her career and definitely as Governor-General, so I don't see her doing anything radical. On the other hand, she is a Quebecer (despite the disrespect and even hate with which she is treated here by much of the media and many of the people) and comes from the arts community. I can't imagine she supports much of Harper's neo-con ideology.

The wild card, I think, as usual, is sex. Power is attractive and there has always been some kind of frisson going on between Jean and Harper. Is it possible he has used his Satanic powers to burrow deep into her soul (and her bed chamber) just enough to influence her to side with him?

4 comments:

olibou
said...

Poor mme Jean, what did she do to deserve this anyway? That being said, she has top notch counselling and will probably come up with a compromise that will be annoying to everyone. I have no quarrels with that.

That being said, am I the only one who is impressed with the way the PCC has absolutely punted Québec?

I mean, he evens tries to pull the good old trick of saying separatist in english and "souverainiste" in french, just like in the good old Chrétien days!

I have to say, I appreciate how the NDP are framing this aas a progressive alliance.

I am loving what is going on and fascinated by how MJ is going to react.

I don't think that Harper will prorogue parliament - that would be so medieval parliamentary.

Instead, I think that MJ will allow the unholy alliance of Dion and Layton with a little Bloc on the side to succeed. I don't think that she has a choice in that as there is a precedent for this already in what happened in Ontario some 30 years ago. Exactly the same fact pattern and the LG put the new coalition in power.

Why briques du neige?

When I first moved to Montréal, I was obsessed with the quantity of accumulated snow in the winter. I came up with a scheme to design a snow-brick making tool and hire out my services to people where I would turn all the snow in their yard to bricks and then stack it neatly. This enterprise, named briques du neige, would also be an excellent way to learn about and integrate myself into my new community. Unfortunately, before I was able to launch my plan, the Japanese invented Yuki-Taro and made me redundant. So my project morphed itself into this blog, kept the title (including the minor grammatical error which perfectly captures my functional but erroneous french) and the mission to better understand this crazy city and the Quebec culture that is such a crucial and complex part of the Canadian story.

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1/3 American, 1/3 Canadian, 1/3 Montrealer, when I'm not working for the planet and living my lucky life, I hang out on the internet and write about culture and language in Montreal, books and movies. I also rant on a wide range of subjects and try to do that here so my wife doesn't have to be the only one to suffer.